Somewhere, Woody Harrelson's character from Zombieland is crying.

Twinkies remind me of Die Hard 1 :(

I'm in favor of unions but sometimes they are unrealistic and fuck over the hands that feed them. Shame.

How will Egon explain the Containment Unit to people now?!?

I bought 50 this afternoon, I may go get more.

I live in a small FL town, so I doubt half the island has heard about it yet, apparently they are selling out in other areas. I was surprised when I saw this attributed to the union. It's shameful that they let it come to this. That said, it does sound like Hostess had been in trouble for a while, so the union problem may have just driven the nail in faster.

I also saw the union boss is blaming Romney...

On a positive note - recently I've started seeing Oreos at local malls. Took them about a century to get here, apparently ;P.

They tried to slash wages and benefits, and the unions told them to go screw. It's possible that they were being completely unreasonable, but for lack of better information, I'm siding with the unions.

Also, Twinkees are seriously vile.

Were seriously vile, I guess.

One issue I'm seeing is that the CEO gave himself a pretty good sized raise (almost 3x his current compensation), and a bunch of upper management folks were giving themselves raises as well. So I can imagine the Union and it's members was sitting there thinking that the money had to come from somewhere. The union was fairly stubborn here, don't get me wrong, but I can imagine that they felt like they were being fed misinformation at the time.

Riiiight, because it clearly takes super qualified people to run the twinke press. Go Union!!

That is actually good. Look for the whole picture. You make a stand although it hurts you too bad in that company/region/state/whatever you show that you're not just all talk. This is unfortunately the way most change and points are made. Some people take the hit just so that many others might get something better.

I didn't read the link but by your post I guessed what it was about. If I'm way of just count my post to drunken attention span syndrome and leave it at that.

No more twinkies? No more ho-ho,cupcakes and all that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKss2uYpih8

Dr. Egon Spengler: Well, let's say this Cadbury's Mini Roll represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's sample, it would be a Cadbury's Mini Roll... thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

**This post is in no way sponsored by Cadbury, but if they wanted to throw a few mini rolls my way it would be greatly appreciated**

I don't know. When people from the other unions associated with Hostess blame you for killing the company, it's possible that the union in question was in the wrong. Add to that that a lot of the members of the union had crossed the picket lines and returned to work, and again, it makes the union look bad.

There's making a stand for the greater good, and then there's chopping off the hand that feeds you in order to stand for making as much as possible. It's a fine line.

It doesn't sound like Hostess had much of a chance anyway. They were neither big enough, nor adaptable enough to survive with the times.

The only people who are going to take a hit here are the workers. Management will sell the rights for loads of cash (dont worry twinkie lovers, a minor interruption at worst) and the union bosses will continue to collect their dues from all the other members. While Joe and Sally worker who "stood up for the cause" are out on the street.